3 years that would change the world forever. my jillions journey around the world to start september 7th on d. w. ah. ah. ah, this is dw news life from berlin. russia bids fair well to form a leader mikhail gorbachev. crowds line, i've been moscow to see the last leader of the soviet union lay to rest that we know full state funeral for the man. some russians reject as a traitor and gas from shuts down supplies to germany indefinitely. the russian

energy giants is the north stream. one gas pipeline will stay offline blaming repairs. europe says that's a fos ah i'm painful and welcome. the last leader of the soviet union mikhail gorbachev is being laid to rest at a ceremony in moscow called which i've died on tuesday at the age of 91. after a long illness, crowns are lining up in moscow to see the former president lying in state at moscow's hold of columns that he has not been given a full state funeral. usually helpful. former leaders, russian president vladimir putin will not attend citing of schedule. most western leaders are also staying away because of hooton's invasion of youth, and gary in private as to victor alba is expected to be in moscow to pay his respects. i asked that correspondent you were chateau how rusher is bidding fear

farewell to it's la soviet leader. well, after the ceremony that is now taking place mikhail gorbachev will to bury it in the early afternoon at another. david g cemetery next to his wife for a 2nd batch over. it's not unusual band in russia that the dead are buried to within 3 days. so we shouldn't be surprised why gorbachev is buried so quickly, although the impression could arise there to the kremlin, wants to deal with this as quickly as possible. because gorbachev, of course, stands for a completely different political system for a completely different value system than the current president of russia. let me put a stance on that. gorbachev is not being buried in the kremlin wall, like in all he is a soviet predecessors that was presumably his last veal. he was often seen at the grave of his wife. i isa who died of cancer in 99 to 9. and it was important to leisure gorbachev to be buried next to her a gorbachev was seen as so much more in the west. ah,

his legacy in the folk former soviet states is quite mixed. so let's have a quick look back at his political life. douglas as your country mikhail gorbachev . first speech as leader of the soviet union. it was clear he was a stark contrast to his predecessors. we scored you was the old right. i live in peace and freedom is the most. am your autopay sick, right to veteran widow for our kilobit. gorbachev wanted to change the soviet union to bring it closer to the people. he promoted glass nah, st. openness and perestroika reforms to words that will forever be associated with him. his new outlook was popular with many his policies also applied to the military, despite the resistance of soviet generals issued to

us in severe voters, almost, i'm convinced that we will also have to reform our military law. we have far too many weapons law safely. we have to seek dialogue with other superpowers and reduce our arsenals to a reasonable extent in that yourself. as a result of that dialogue gorbachev and u. s. president reagan find the 1st of many disarmament treaties in 1987. it was the beginning of the end of the cold war in october 1989 when he visited east berlin for the g d r's, 40th anniversary celebrations. gorbachev urged eric hanukkah to implement reforms. he warned the eastern leader saying, life punishes those who come too late. a month after his visit, the berlin wall fell and with it, the iron curtain that had divided europe for decades. it

was gorbachev's, reformist, policies that helped unleash a peaceful revolution across eastern europe. ah, in 1990 gorbachev was awarded the nobel peace prize for his key role in bringing about a new peaceful world order. internationally, he was highly regarded but at home, he was increasingly under pressure. the economic situation was dire. the soviet union on the verge of falling apart, communist hardliner stage to crew against gorbachev in august 1991. at the end of that year, mikhail gorbachev announced his resignation and the soviet union was dissolved with many russians holding him responsible for its demise. ah, near he could you tell us more about why ah, there is such

a mixed legacy at home as far as a gorbachev went in and what he achieved. well, alex gorbachev lay to the foundations of russian democracy. he created the atmosphere in which something completely new co to merge, been freedom of speech, freedom of press democracy, everything that russians before him could only dream about. but he also made mistakes. of course, gorbachev was followed by boris yeltsin, a man who didn't exactly lie garbage of this boss at the beginning of the as it giga beginning of the cow arctic nineties, in russia, ingrained in russian collective mind as a decayed of cows and lawlessness a. but people mix it all up today and to blame. gorbachev for everything are we talked to moscow, vice 9 people out of 10 sant. he caused the distant aggression of their once. your great and beautiful country, the soviet union. there is a lot of nostalgia for the good old days. and of course,

a lot of frustration about the 1st yes, after the collapse of the soviet union, which will very difficult. and you see the kremlin and also russian president vladimir putin reaction to go which offset or put in paid tribute to garbage of through a he scrambling spokesman, pest scoff, saying he was a great statesman. ah, he expressed his condolences to the family today. however, putting you, sad to will not be attending the ceremony because of scheduling reasons. at least that's what the kremlin says and it is, of course, ah const, because that putin who will not be present to there to day, ah, it's relationship between the 2. it was difficult actually. gorbachev supported put ins, policy special to grants ukraine garbage have sat than accession of crimea was justified . at the same time, he must have been increasingly frustrated with the developments of a recent years and months. a gorbachev never commented directly on the why ukraine,

as he was already very ill. but one of his closest friends, however, said he believed tis the war, had greatly disappointed mikhail gorbachev. and it's been 3 days. it's uri's since gorbachev resigned, and the cold war ended. what would you say is the legacy that he left behind? well, it all depends, i would say on who you are, who you talk to people in western europe, especially in germany, but also russians who are coming to moscow's house of unions to day to pay their last respects to got a bunch of these people certainly think very highly of him. at the same time, people in the baltic states reacted quite differently to gorbachev. i for many here he was a symbol of the soviet occupation and gorbachev didn't want the baltic states to become independent. when all that, especially in neighboring lithuania, there is a negative attitude towards gorbachev or so any was at the 1st of the baltic states that declared independence. what followed to war,

bloody protest with many deaths when soviets special forces, tried to suppress the these protest. anthony, as president compared garbage of even with the prison warden, or who only decided to reform the prison, partially, ah, by the prisoners, wanted to get out. and so they did, but against gorbachev. sybil ah lithuanians foreign minister, long's baroness has reacted quite harshly and to be totally so any and so will not glorify gorbachev is there will never forget the fact that his army murdered his sad civilians to prolong his regimes location. ah, and he and riga had garcia and cabbage loudly asked for a minister stressed that the collapse of their sale was the best moment of the 20th century. but the killing of people in venice, intrigue, or was part of gorbachev. legacy or the mixed legacy of mikhail gorbachev, the last soviet leader being late to rest, or we can see more as their streaming in to our say their final farewells. thank

you very much for timing in your e ratio. there are from reger and we will keep you up to date on any developments. o rushes, state owned energy supply gas problem has indefinitely hold to the flow of gas through a key pipeline to germany. the company says, discovered leaks in a turbine. it was expected to restart deliveries today after a short break for maintenance. instead, it announced a complete suspension without giving a time frame. it's offered to supply gas to europe through ukraine. european leaders reject the reasoning to hold those train one. they see this as an extension of rushes warren, you crime, siemens, the german company that supplied gas problem with the turbines says there's no reason the pipeline couldn't keep operating. so how serious is the latest notes stream shut down? i put that question to honestly he called bo, from the central global energy policy at columbia university. this is very dire

because in europe we have to see not only a gas crises, but our crisis where we are facing a gas crisis because our key supply. yeah. which we present, you don't, you know, 40 percent out of gas supplies, you know, the going on the about 20 percent of that by. so we have big problem because we have twice to replace the williams with energy, outrageously expensive. i mean, the price of gas at some point 2 weeks ago where the equivalent of almost 6 on the last battle and yet, our crises because we have no, we have no what high school. and they are not even we paid off when you the board and to look for get back natural gas presents about 20 percent of power generation and natural gas demand. he's about to ask not to play so far. so b p programs of testing. we nuclear whole being replaced by a bit more gas look or not when you live or stand up would be useful. what about

ukraine's offer to increase its electricity exports to europe? is that something that can happen overnight? i do not know the specificities about that, but any, it's not good if, if the killer with our is the to how with our white now is welcome. i think, you know, we need to move away from ideal g to pragmatism. every thing that we can bring back or keep, and i'm thinking about some nuclear power plants in germany is absolutely welcome during this winter. and so i think politicians the, to be extremely honest with the population they should have been from the very beginning there been going around in the world, trying to get additional gas supplies. that not being focusing enough on the demand side. we to reduce our demand and said collective effort that either because what the japanese did, after fukushima, we need to reduce older men. because what i'm afraid about is that the situation is

going to go on for 3 years, right? kendrick machine, how our industry sector in europe is going to survive for 3 years, even if they are either shortage of energy because they're going to be the 1st good of the asked to leave. we pretty crazy prices compared to anybody. s, into what our industry just going to be on competitive we are at war. we are an economic war with russia. i mean, people need to realize that, and we need to think, i said we should be thinking in terms of an economic war, not try to see me. but if you go, you may be, when can, when you so you can be know, i mean, this is extremely serious situation that we are in your home from anatomical boy, from the center on global energy policy at columbia university. thank you very much for being on the show today. thank you for says the dish. let's take

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